Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard from another TIME-reader who was also in the throes of writing a book. She is Mrs. Willa Thompson Trierweiler, and she had just returned to her home in Echternach, Luxembourg, after a long stay in a Swiss hospital, when she wrote me. She found a stack of copies of TIME awaiting her, and proceeded to go through them. One article that caught her attention was the letter I wrote to you about TIME'S Quebec correspondent, Roger Lemelin (TIME, Aug. 18), and she was struck by the number of ways in which his experiences paralleled...
...Most of the motorized menaces on U.S. highways do not lack driving skill, but suffer from emotional disturbances, said New York University's Dr. Herbert J. Stack. He recommended psychological treatment for offenders who run through red lights because they hate their jobs or their mothers...
...your furnace." Before a crowd of 200 Big Steel officials, families and friends, Fairless' red-haired seven-year-old granddaughter touched an oil torch to a 6-ft. fuse, which began to sputter like a Fourth of July sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched a button which fired a rocket through a plug in an open hearth furnace already going, and 250 tons...
...nearly surrounding the viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...year later, due largely to Meany's persuasiveness and persistence, the state legislature had passed a fat stack of pro-labor bills, e.g., the state's first unemployment insurance law. In 1939, after organizing a mammoth 15-hour parade up New York's Fifth Avenue, an impressive display of labor's might, he was elected A.F.L. Secretary-Treasurer. Since then he has concentrated on public relations (he got the A.F.L. to sponsor regular news broadcasts) and relations with unions abroad (he spearheaded the post-World War II fight against U.S. labor's participation...